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<div>For everyone's information our official position, provided at the Board of Trustees meeting last August may be found on our website <a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/news/internet-society-board-trustees-calls-global-internet-community-stand-together-support-open">here</a>
. Our Board has endorsed these principles and all chapters are encouraged to do the same</div>
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<div>Ted Mooney</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Evan Leibovitch <<a href="mailto:evan@telly.org">evan@telly.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:38 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>ISOC Chapter Delegates <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Chapter-delegates] Necessary and Proportionate<br>
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<div>For those who are not aware, I wish to draw your attention to the EFF-led website that asserts a set of boundaries for electronic surveillance. Given that such surveillance will happen, the move is an attempt to assert "International Principles on the
Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance" through a project called "Necessary and Proportionate Principles". The project is housed at the website "<a href="http://necessaryandproportionate.org">necessaryandproportionate.org</a>", and available
in multiple languages.</div>
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<div>The website enables both individuals and organizations to give their support and endorsement of the principles. I note that amongst the list of <a href="https://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/signatories">organizational signatorie</a>s are Internet Society
chapters from Canada, Congo, Ecuador, Germany, Palestine, Philippines, Serbia/Belgrade, Trinidad & Tobago, as well as the ISOC Board of Trustees.</div>
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<div>Whether or not your chapter decides to sign on, I encourage you to have a look at the site, and
<a href="https://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/TEXT">evaluate the principles</a> and human rights that the effort is trying to promote. I believe this to be a useful effort and worthy of greater attention.</div>
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<div style="text-align:left">Em: evan at telly dot org</div>
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<div style="text-align:left">Sk: evanleibovitch</div>
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<div style="text-align:left">Tw: el56</div>
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